What did Jacob Bronowski mean by: We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. - Jacob Bronowski Copy
+ I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Ascent, Brilliant, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
+ The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Metaphor, Symbols, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
+ The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Angel, Animal, Baby, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
+ No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Political, Politics, Power, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
+ The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Ascent, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
+ The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Magic, Opposition, Power, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
+ Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Age, Art, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
+ Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacob Bronowski, Ascent, Errors, Science, 0 - Jacob Bronowski
The laws of art are eternal and don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings. - Max Beckmann Painter · Germany
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
You’re an Attorney. It’s your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France